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GHURN. No. 305,910, Patented Sept. 30, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PA'rENr rEicE.

VHANNIBAL FELT, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY l). DESCHER, OF SAME PLAGE.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters' Patent No. 305,910, dated September 30, 1884.

' Application filed September 26, 1883. (No modell To af/ZZ whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, HANNIBAL FELT, of

Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Churns, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the class of churns in which a dash whose stem passes down through the lid revolves in a horizontal plane within a suitable vessel 1o armed with vertical ribs or breakers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical, and Fig. 2 a horizontal, section, of a churn embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the dash. Fig. 4 is a I5 perspective View of one end of the crossbeam u and a part of one of the supportingpillars de tached. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same securedtogether. Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively an axial section and a top view of the 2o driving-pinion.

A may represent a suitable tub of the familiar frustum form having longitudinal ribs or breakers B, that project radially inward from its interior walls.

The lid or cover consists, preferably, of two semicircular pieces,` C C, whose notches c permit passage downward of the stem or shaft D of my dash, The said dash is composed of a beater, E, of the represented acutely lozenge- 3o formed` horizontal section, and extending at rightl angles from said beater are a pair of open-work whippers, F F. The said stem is held perpendienlarly by, and revolves within, a beam, G, whose central boss, g, receives the dash-shaft D, and whose ends rest upon pillars H H, that rise fromlthetub sides.

J J are buttons pivoted by bolts j to the ends of the beam on the under side. Slots t' i in inturned horizontal lips I I of the reno spective pillars receivebuttons J '.I, which when inactive rest against shoulders ii", and whose partial rotation causes them to engage and bind beneath the oblique under surfaces, i i, of said lips. The dash is supported and steadied withinl they churn by a cross-piece, K, whose central orifice, k, embraces the dashsteni, and whose end notches, k' k', embrace the upper ends of two diametrioallyopposite breakers. The dash-stem D is surmounted Y 5o by a square ferrule, L, which, occupying a correspondingly-square eye, m, in the boss M of pinion N, secures corotation of the dash and pinion. Pedestals O O, that extend upward from beam G, afford journal-bearing to the horizontal shaft l? of a large bevel-Wheel, Q, that meshes into the said pinion N. A winch, R, at the outer extremity of shaft P enables rotation of the dash.

The operation is as follows: The tub being charged with cream, the dash is inserted and 6o the cross-piece K is secured upon two diametrically-opposite breakers. 'Ihe beam G. is then firmly locked to the pillars H H by means of the buttons J J. The dash being then rotated, the beater E operates to drive the contents violently against the breakers, vso as to rupture the cellular structure of the cream-vesicles, while the whippers F F operate to still further disintegrate the original masses. When the butter has come slow 7o rotationof the dash collects the butter in mass by rolling it against the breakers, so as to ball it, and at the same time press the whey thoroughly out of it. The beamA G being then unlocked and the lids G C lifted and the dash taken ont of the tub, the latter is emptied.

It will be seen that the dash `is centered wholly from above, so as not to require any socket in the tub-licor, which is consequently 8o entirely smooth. The parts in contactwith the cream are exclusively of wood, and the apparatus has no place of leakage, and requires no packed joint, and is of cheap and easy construction, and is easily cleansed. 8 5

I claim herein as new and of my invention* 1. In a churn, the combination of a tub having breakers B, notched and perforated cross-piece K, and a dash consisting of aloz- 9o enge-shaped beater, E, pair of open-work whippers F F, and a stem, D, as set forth.

Zuluy a churn, the combination ot' a tub having breakers B, notched and perforated cross-piece K, dash consisting of lozengeshaped beater E, pair of open-work Whipperarms F F, and stem D, beam G, to receive the upper end of the stem, and having a boss,

g, and the boss M, having pinion N, as set forth. reo

3. In a churn, the combination of ai tub, In testimony of whiohinvention Ifhereunto pillars H H, having horizontal inturned lips set my hand. I I, formed With slotsz' z' and oblique under surfaces, z' v3, and the beam G, having but- 'HANNIBAL FELT 5 tons J J, received through the slots to engage Attest:

under the oblique surfaces of the lips, as set GEO. II. KNIGHT,

forth. S. S. CARPENTER. 

